Essays/articles
Denise K Cummings, "'Accessible Poetry'? Cultural Intersection and Exchange in Contemporary American Indian and American Independent Film." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 13:1, pp. 57-80, Spring 2001.
Michael DeAngelis, "Gender and other transcendences: William Blake as Johnny Depp", in: "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls : gender in film at the end of the twentieth century" (ed Murray Pomerance), State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 283-99.
Mary Katherine Hall, "Now You Are a Killer of White Men: Jim Jarmusch's 'Dead Man' and Traditions of Revisionism in the Western", Journal of Film and Video 52:4 [Winter 2000] pp. 3-14.
Jacquelyn Kilpatrick, "The Sympathetic 1980s and 1990s: Dead Man", in her "Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and film", University of Nebraska Press, 1999, pp. 169-177.
C Jason P Lee, "Death as 'Sanity': The Nature of Death and Dead Man's In/Difference; Dead Man – An Examen of Unconsciousness", in his The Metaphysics of Mass Art - Cultural Ontology Vol 2: Madness and the Savage Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and the Psychology of the Observer in U.S. Film (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999).
Jacob Levich, "Western Auguries: Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man", Film Comment 32:3 (May-June 1996), 39-41.
Susanne M Maier, "'Stranger in a Strange Land': Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and the Technology of the American West/ern", Node 9, (March 1997).
Justus Nieland, "Graphic Violence: Native Americans and the Western Archive in Dead Man", The New Centennial Review 1:2, Fall 2001, pp. 171-200.
Peter Pelzer, "Dead Man: An encounter with the unknown past", Journal of Organizational Change Management, 15:1 (Feb 2002) pp. 48 - 62.
Gregg Rickman, "The Western Under Erasure: Dead Man", in "The Western Reader", Jim Kitses and Gregg Rickmann (eds.), New York, Limelight Editions, 1999.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, "Dead Man" (BFI, 2000), 96 pp.
Greg Salyer, "Poetry Written in Blood: Creating Death in Dead Man", in Imag(in)ing Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together, (eds) S Brent Plate and David Jasper (Scholars Press/Oxford University Press, 1999).
Todd J Tubutis, "Filming a Makah Village for Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man". Unpublished master's thesis, Dept of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 1998.
Interviews
Scott Macaulay, "End of the Road", in "Jim Jarmusch: Interviews" (ed Ludvig Hertzberg, 2001), originally in Filmmaker, 4:3 (Spring 1996), pp. 46-47, 70.
Jonathan Rosenbaum "A Gun Up Your Ass: An Interview with Jim Jarmusch", in "Jim Jarmusch: Interviews" (ed Ludvig Hertzberg, 2001), originally in Cineaste 22:2 (June 1996), pp. 20-23.
Amy Taubin, "Dead Man Talking", The Village Voice XLI: 20, 14 May 1996.